U.S. Equestrian has announced the participants for the 2023 Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic Week on 3 - 8 January 2023. The clinic will take place at the Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Fla.
The first edition was held in 2011 and the education week has been a fixture on the calendar ever since.
Training America's Future
The purpose of the annual RDHCW is to develop the next generation of U.S. Dressage Team talent. Participants will receive instruction from industry professionals on topics related to riding, competing, and horse care. This year’s clinicians for the ridden sessions of the RDHCW are Katherine Bateson-Chandler, Ali Brock, Katie Duerrhammer, Olivia LaGoy-Weltz, and Shelly Francis.
Who Gets to Go?
Automatic invitations to the RDHCW are sent to the champion and reserve champion from the U.S Under 25 Championship, top three overall winners from the U.S. Junior and Young Rider Championship, the champion and reserve champion of the U.S. Pony and Children Championship and USEF Dressage Seat Medal Finals, as well as to the highest-placed U.S. individual and freestyle medalists from the FEI North American Youth Championships.
The remaining clinic spaces are open to wildcard applicants.
Twenty Selected
The following participants are listed in alphabetical order:
| • | Ellanor Boehning (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) |
| • | M.K. Connatser (Dallas, Texas) |
| • | Kasey Denny (Williston, Fla.) |
| • | Korey Denny (Williston, Fla.) |
| • | Leah Drew (Lincoln, Mass.) |
| • | Ella Fruchterman (Woodbury, Minn.) |
| • | Tiggy Gates (Encinitas, Calif.) |
| • | Maryn Geck (West Linn, Ore.) |
| • | Josephine Hinnemann (Murrieta, Calif.) |
| • | Kylee Kment (Palmyra, Neb.) |
| • | Lexie Kment (Palmyra, Neb.) |
| • | Kayley Knollman (Maineville, Ohio) |
| • | Sydney Lipar (The Woodlands, Texas) |
| • | Callie O’Connell (Wilmington, Mass.) |
| • | Marin Roth (Bloomington, Ill.) |
| • | Sophia Schults (Wellington, Fla.) |
| • | Gemma Starn (Putnam Valley, N.Y.) |
| • | Madison Sumner (Wellington, Fla.) |
| • | Autumn Vavrick (Oxford, Mich.) |
| • | Virginia Woodcock (Atlanta, Ga.) |
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